Chinese music industry groups file suit against Baidu

Music Copyright Society and distributor R2G call for site to immediately halt copyright violations and offer compensation.

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[t0n3d0g]

Winners & Losers

Provided this case goes to trial & Chinese courts uphold
copyright laws, who are the winners & losers? Obvs, Google and
local Chinese musicians/copyright holders benefit the most. A
long-awaited decision against Baidu would finally help Google to
compete on a level, more legally-sound playing field. I suspect
Yahoo China could suprise GOOG and use their local presence
to overtake the internet giant but this seems unlikely. Meanwhile
Baidu still has the name recognition with older, rural & first-time
internet users in China and will prove a formidable opponent
even without extra-legal downloads of mp3 music.

[galacticgufus]

mostly losers

actually, the musicians will lose when they are no longer able to distribute their music and the big business copyright holders will win.